According to the text authors, "the celebration of 'the people' became the New Deal's dominant cultural motif." What evidence would support this assertion?
What will be an ideal response?
The most obvious illustration of "the people" as the dominant cultural motif of the depression is in the work of the WPA. Its Federal Writer's Project and Theater Project celebrated the resilience of the American people through government aided research and production projects. Also, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke directly to, and enlisted the support of, "the people" in his numerous "fire-side chats."
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Medieval cities were always under the direct rule of the local nobility.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The armed conflict between Pennsylvania farmers and the US government in the 1790s was called
a. the Whiskey Rebellion. b. the Reign of Terror. c. the Federalist Rebellion. d. the Jay Rebellion.
After succeeding President William Henry Harrison following his death from pneumonia, President John Tyler clashed with prominent members of the Whig Party including members of his own cabinet over
A) Tyler's signing of the Land Act of 1841 making it easier for homesteaders to buy federal land or keep land on which they were squatters.
B) Tyler's signature of the first federal Bankruptcy Act.
C) Tyler's veto of a bill to re-create the Bank of the United States and a follow-up bill that would have created a "fiscal corporation" that would have more limited powers.
D) the resolution of Canadian border problems with Britain with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.
Which provides the strongest evidence that eighteenth-century slavery was based on racist views?
A) The status of a person as a slave depended entirely on the amount of money a person had, and blacks had little money. B) The status of a person as a slave depended on where the person was born, and being born in Africa made a person a slave. C) The status of a person as a slave depended entirely on skin color. D) The status of a person as a slave depended partly on skin color and partly on intelligence. E) The status of a person as a slave depended entirely on social class.